At around the size of a domestic chicken, kiwi are by far the smallest living ratites and lay the largest egg in relation to their body size of any species of bird in the world.

The endemic Inaccessible Island rail, the smallest extant flightless bird in the world, is only found on Inaccessible Island.

The incubation period varies from species to species, around 40 days for the smallest storm-petrels but longer for the largest species ; for albatrosses it can span 70 to 80 days, which is the longest incubation period of any bird.

This bird is the smallest owl in Australia and is the continent's most widely distributed and common owl.

Indeed, the smallest extant bird species is a hummingbird, the 5-cm Bee Hummingbird.

Two white eggs are laid, which, despite being the smallest of all bird eggs, are in fact large relative to the hummingbird's adult size.

This is the smallest of the Gyps vultures, but is still a very large bird.

On average they are larger than other parrots ; however, the Cockatiel, the smallest cockatoo species, is a small bird.

The Brown Pelican the smallest of the eight species of pelican, although it is a large bird in nearly every other regard.

The distributions of many bird species observe the line, since many birds do not cross even the smallest stretches of open ocean water.

The Lesser Flamingo is the smallest species of flamingo, though it is a tall and largish bird by most standards.

It is found only on Inaccessible Island in the Tristan Archipelago, and is notable for being the smallest extant flightless bird in the world.

The Goldcrest is the smallest European bird, 8. 5 – 9. 5 cm ( 3. 3 – 3. 7 in ) in length, with a 13. 5 – 15. 5 cm ( 5. 3 – 6. 1 in ) wingspan and a weight of 4. 5 – 7. 0 g ( 0. 16 – 0. 25 oz ).

Alfred Newton hypothesized that, " It may be, as in Jackass, an indication of sex, for it is a popular belief that the Jack-Snipe is the male of the common species ; or, again, it may refer to the comparatively small size of the bird, as the ' jack ' in the game of bowls is the smallest of the balls used, and as fishermen call the smaller Pikes Jacks.

It is a small bird, marginally the smallest in the genus, 11 – 12 cm long, and 7 – 10 g weight.

This is the smallest breeding bird found in Canada and the United States.

The Bee Hummingbird produces the smallest known bird egg, which weighs half of a gram.

Until the 1990s, it was the smallest known non-avialan dinosaur ; earlier it was the closest supposed relative of the early bird Archaeopteryx.

The White-tailed Ptarmigan, Lagopus leucura, is the smallest bird in the grouse family.

The White-tailed Ptarmigan is the smallest of the ptarmigans and the smallest bird in the grouse family.

The Least Bittern ( Ixobrychus exilis ) is a small wading bird, the smallest heron found in the Americas.

With a mass of approximately and a length of, it is the smallest living bird.

The smallest flightless bird is the Inaccessible Island Rail ( length 12. 5 cm, weight 34. 7 g ).

The smallest vertebrate in the world is the New Guinea frog, Paedophryne amauensis.

One well-known association the town has is with the ' Accrington Pals ', the nickname given to the smallest home town battalion of volunteers formed to fight in the first world war.

This last language has the smallest number of consonants in the world, with just six.

* " An Extraordinary Town, How one of America's smallest towns shaped the world " A book on Clarence Brown's home town with an extensive section on the life and contributions of Clarence Brown.

With a total manpower of 3, 500 active soldiers and 6, 000 reservists, it is one of the smallest militaries in the world.

* LaGuardia Airport, the smallest of New York's three major currently operating airports, bears his name ; the airport was voted the " greatest airport in the world " by the worldwide aviation community in 1960.

With 5. 5 million followers, Jainism is among the smallest of the major world religions, but in India its influence is much greater than these numbers would suggest.

The city has a 28-station metro system, making it the smallest city in the world to have a rapid transit system.

The Principality of Monaco, which is the world's second smallest nation ( after the Vatican City State ), has a very limited military capability, and would depend entirely upon its larger neighbour, France, for defence in the face of an aggressive world power.

All together there are 255 soldiers serving in Monaco's military ( not including civilian employees who currently number 35 total ), making its military the third smallest in the world ( after Antigua and Barbuda and Iceland ).

In terms of population, the Pitcairn Islands is the smallest democracy in the world.

In 2003, Apple launched both the largest-screen laptop in the world and Apple's smallest full-featured notebook computer.

San Marino has one of the smallest military forces in the world.

The decision to let the currency trade freely as part of the IMF rescue package means that Seychelles is the smallest country in the world that has a completely independent currency-one that is neither pegged, nor an adopted foreign currency, nor a common currency used within a larger monetary union.

After its opening, Lausanne replaced Rennes as the smallest city in the world to have a full metro system.

Megacorporations in the 21st-century are global, with all but the smallest corps owning multiple subsidiaries and divisions around the world.

* 301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.

Instead, Wittgenstein believed objects to be the things in the world that would correlate to the smallest parts of a logically analyzed language, such as names like x.

The smallest V4 economy is Slovakia ( GDP of USD 127. 111 billion total, 60th in the world ).

Penderyn Distillery is located in the Brecon Beacons National Park and is considered to be the smallest distillery in the world.

**** Northern Pudú ( Pudu mephistophiles ) ( smallest deer in the world )

Although most crustaceans are small, their morphology varies greatly and they include both the largest arthropod in the world – the Japanese spider crab with a leg span of – and the smallest – the long Stygotantulus stocki.

The smallest funicular in the world is the Fisherman's Walk Cliff Railway in Bournemouth, England, at a length of.